Dan Brown Reveals the Secrets of 'Inferno'

5/15/2013 12:33PM

When Dan Brown was researching his new novel, "Inferno," he went to great pains to keep copycats and spoilers off his trail. Alexandra Alter joins Lunch Break with details from her interview with the famed author.

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know couple of copies and is largely they're probably because they have the explosive revelations he can't let that out ... so first I thought maybe he's just being paranoid pitching but they are actually people out there are any writing books dissecting what they think the plot in this book is going to be before they even ... read his next was re so what are some other places he visited two of the drinks to come from people off the asset was his research tactics and in one of his tactics for Trent Lott is to spend a lot of times and locations and looking are words that have nothing to do and what if I can sell ... in this book is a pillars the compliance it's about it's based on guns and gun season for now ... aam but he spent on time if you think the galleries are looking for plans and ... looking our carotene looked at the net this agitated for very long time that's a lot of question certain strands that that ... the nanny told me he can ... he can really make a trip without somebody saying guess my side today get says citing Dan and I think what he was in Florence Schwimmer unceasing pictures playing on Facebook so I can answer on a lot of false false claims to cover its frac exhausting of course this is a guy who writes one hundred page outline for his books wakes up at four am to start writing so ... exhausting he promises even know what that word means ... when you talk to many Penney got the scoop on some of the works of art that actually did make it ... into an inferno tells about this show I mean um without giving too much about the plot because these are all clear that the D M Brown a long time he spends a lot of time on by a tele map of knowledge is a sunny and for now ... is the version that appears as but has been doctored slightly doubled so we're clear if he does it added this to and I'm here all by the sari which at it includes this code that says he can find in Latin ... this is actually in the painting and ask oddly that's pointing the way toward financing and de Vinci painting ... but the brownies is actually different facts to serve unravel this allotments targeting billions of people and on to his death mask is figures in this that and and is sitting there I think several different a massive no answer each one is is alleging that one ... but in time in five it's not all the dust mass holds an important player there's some ... some trees that suggested he looks to be accidental figure out where this thing is looking for it is an easing of the guise of death could potentially be the death if anything he's excited to confess DVD actions dozens of potential Robert Langdon ... books in his mind in Sunni areas yes without Shakespear controversy around with the Shakespear Motorsports said maybe it's that he doesn't see me as any dearth of ideas ... if he didn't know ... he would hang him self upside down ... gravity boots ... this is the name is this the net income now and in areas in the past and deep love and talk my as when he does when he has read is what he said that I'd never have friends like to have too many AED as ... he hangs upside down gravity boots for more than a man and he set out to be more than an hour long work ... and this helps than peers had and he said it helps him with plots that's ... when he gets his hero Robert Langdon second in Korea somewhere any camping away getting out and when shooting at the bank financing and that the victims of legal finance landscape plans either that thinking that's the clicking of all these desperate novelists out there deployed Marine gravity those who do not I mean that that's a good and then of what to do with the secret ... secret codes he drops the secret codes to indeed useful for those ... of people who really searching for just that extra extra pot plants yes and and he said their son cousin and he thinks nobody is ever found if you live off of them all right so if they find something that's ... really had he said in a sometimes the page number matters of summing up and on page fifty four that might mean something ... he does a lot of U S family of people's names people again as he uses ... people from its cost me Stake Sale on one side jets for them like his wealth created Thailand featured here in Angel in the hands ... of unforeseen bananas around and found which was upsetting to the continued till the sun was ... still ... doing so in the book ... October minus twenty cents in the book is out in the pink outfit is out now so we know this and are just being kind that's the spot for that I'm sure